[39] ‘Plures sanctos invocantes,’ i.e. the Laudes spoken of in the Chron. of Moissac. “Les ‘Laudes’ sont une série d’acclamations dans lesquelles on invoque le Christ, les anges, et les saints pour la personne qui est l’objet de la cérémonie.” Duchesne, op. cit. II. 37, n. 33. The Laudes were not exclusively a feature of the coronation rite, but had a place in any public function of which any great personage was the centre. Laudes in very much the same form as usual here had been used on a previous occasion in honour of Charles as King of the Franks and Roman Patrician. See Dom Leclercq, DACL, ‘Charlemagne,’ col. 786. An example of the Laudes will be found on p. 43.
[40] Einhard, Vita Caroli, c. XXVIII.
[41] Poeta Saxo, de gestis Caroli.
Post laudes igitur dictas et summus eundem
Praesul adoravit, sicut mos debitus olim
Principibus fuit antiquis.
[42] Regin. Chron., s.a. 801, ‘Leo Papa coronam capiti imposuit; et a cuncto Romanorum populo ter acclamatum est,’ etc. (Pertz, l.c. 562.)
[43] Chronographia, I. p. 733.
[44] Compend. Chron., P. G. CXXVII. 389.
[45] De antiquis rit. ecclesiae, II. p. 207. (Ed. 1763.)